WTB- 175cm SG Skis with bindings for Jr female skier. 13 year old. A decent pair of GS may work...

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Originally Posted by Kamloops 

WTB- 175cm SG Skis with bindings for Jr female skier. 13 year old. A decent pair of GS may work as well.

a little bit longer but how about a Salomon Lab stock GS in 181.  nice flex, real easy ski.  a race pair from a top female athlete.  PM if interested

I would echo SS's thought.  When my daughter was a first year J3 {and a good one}, I thought it was essential for her to have SG skis, so I made it a project to source the "right skis". Rossi had a nice short SG, as did Elan {who sponsored her}. We had three pairs to select from. She did a lot of training SG with the J1's and 2's on a pretty well know race trail, and figuring out the skis. Then she went to her first J3 SG and it's a totally different set, with a whole bunch of pretty big looping turns to "control speed."  SG's were totally wrong. She ends up, through Elan, with a pair of 182 GSX from the 2001-2 era, when they had a ton of metal on them. A used or "experienced" women's WC GS ski, with a narrow edge, good structure and a very greasy base. Easy to turn a speed, rock solid, not enough side cut to really worry about hooking up. Did very well, and felt very confident on that ski.  The next year she was going to use an SG ski in the JO's, and in the end her coach decided to go with that GS ski, again because of the course set. In my experience a J3 SG often looks a lot more like a FIS GS than a upper age group SG, so a GS ski with a big turn radius in the 175-183 range may be a good solution. Depends on where you are, the type of hills, sets etc. If you haven't discussed with her coaches, I would.  I've seen girls in that age group show up with $1000 worth of brand new SG skis, all excited, and just be brutally disappointed because they couldn't turn the ski, and being new, they didn't run that fast in the limited straights.  I remember seeing a USST skier when he was a first year J3 just clean up at a SG on a pair of 168 GS skis......his race GS skis. Worth thinking about, IMO.

I have a pair of Volkl 183 SG skis for $265 with marker binding and piston plate.  They have around 15 days on the snow, max.

I have a pair of Nordica Dobermann GSR's in 176cm with Marker 14.0's on them. From 07-08 model year. They have maybe 20 races on them. Bases are perfect, few minor top sheet necks. Super fast and easy to ski....$250 shipped to you. I have pics if you need them

May I ask you, what age-class do you mean by J2 , J3  ?

Thanks

Bringing up an old thread... but they mean club racing age groups.  They go from J1 (older high school kids) to J5 (littler kids)

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Originally Posted by ElsKI 

 

May I ask you, what age-class do you mean by J2 , J3  ?

Thanks

In case you still happen to be looking I have a pair of Dynastar GS 176cm with a 24 turn radius from the 2010.

I might be interested in those Dynastar's for my son.  Mounted?  Plates?  Bindings?  $?  Thx!  Jim